The state Senate approved a bill on party lines Wednesday meant to combat the construction industry's persistent labor shortage by preventing more than one journeyman from ever being required to oversee the work of an apprentice.

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The Assembly was expected on Thursday to approve a proposal that would allow payments for apprenticeship training to be deducted from income taxes.

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State lawmakers gave favorable recommendations on Tuesday a trio of bills meant to draw more young people into apprenticeships and ultimately the trades.

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As a labor shortage continues to weigh on Wisconsin’s construction industry, union and non-union companies and groups alike lined up this week behind a trio of bills meant to draw more young people into apprenticeship training.

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The good news is the bad news. Wisconsin's not-seasonally-adjusted construction-unemployment rate was the lowest on record for the state in November, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Lawmakers on a legislative panel voted along party lines Wednesday to advance a bill meant to prevent more than one journeyman from being needed to oversee the work of any single apprentice entering a particular trade. The favorable recommendation sends ...

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Chad Smith, owner of Master Electric in West Bend, employs four journey men, two apprentices and two helpers. He would like to move his two helpers into his trade’s apprenticeship program. But with the journeyman-to-apprenticeship ratio the state has set for ...

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Lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that would prevent state officials from requiring that more than one journeyman supervise any one apprentice entering the trades. Journeyman-to-apprentice ratios now vary by trade. For carpenters, for example, the mandatory ratio is one-to-one when there ...

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A state Senate panel plans to vote this week on a bill that would set the ratio of journeymen needed to oversee apprentices coming into construction strictly at one-to-one for all trades. The Senate’s Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform ...

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Jeremiah Lederer thinks his business, Edgewater Plumbing in Sheboygan, will hit a big stumbling block in the next ten years: Many of his master plumbers will be retiring, and he’ll have no one to replace them.

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